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Originally Posted by scandium
I see the trajectory, where we differ is on the causes and solutions. Yours puts the blame for everything on a book, the Koran, which is to me is a ridiculous notion in and of itself,
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Go to Morroco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Lybia, etc., and stand on a busy street corner holding up a sign saying that.
It makes no difference what you believe. It makes a difference what the world's 1.2 billion plus adherant of Islam believe is the absolute word of god to be carried out and followed through.
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and is naive enough to believe banning Islam would be the solution (because religious persecution has worked so well in the past, right?).
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While it did a lot of damage and went into unrelated paths, the Crusades did just that and saved the Europe that we've known for centuries from cultural extinction and the persecution of its own religionists.
Now you can't distinquish between aggressors and their victims? All for the glory of some foolish moral equivalence which isn't even there? Now look who's playing with millions of lives, Mr. Condom!
